Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their last 12 games, and most of their lead over the Brewers and Yankees in the AL East race. Actually, the slump, albeit of nearly epic proportions, isn't such a surprise. The baseball season is incredibly long, and only the most ardent Boston fan could possibly claim that the averages would never catch up with his precious...
...stalls typically are filled with a smorgasbord designed to appeal to every taste, from used goods to discounted, discontinued lines of new merchandise. Aficionados claim that the larger markets offer one of everything ever made and two of everything Woolworth ever sold. There are Army uniforms, ladies' spats, metal detectors, Roosevelt buttons, Wallace buttons, Nixon buttons, toilet seats, hubcaps, ski boots, gum ball machines, telephones, dried fruit, perfumes, crutches, jump ropes and Christian Dior shirts...
...they are just damaged, there's always the possibility that the egg may actually have been fertilized in vivo [in the body] ? that the tubes may have functioned again." Sir John Stallworthy, president of the British Medical Association's board of science, agreed that the sensational claim "requires irrefutable proof...
Many scientists shared that surprise. For years they have talked about fertilizing the human egg in a test tube. But with every claim of success has come the inevitable countercurrent of doubt. Indeed as early as the 1940s, the eminent Boston gynecologist Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in development of the birth control pill, reported that he and colleagues had managed to fertilize an egg in vitro. But other scientists believe that the few cell divisions observed by Rock were nothing more than "parthenogenic cleavage" (division of the egg without the involvement of a sperm), probably induced by incidental stimulation...
...that did not sit well with the Mail's principal tabloid rival in Britain, the Express, which had dropped out of the bidding at $190,000. Express reporters claim they had learned that the yet unidentified father was driving three hours each way to visit his wife. So they staked out the hospital parking lot, jotted down license numbers of male motorists who looked as if they might be expectant fathers and traced them through Britain's motor licensing bureau. How? "By subterfuge, even bribery!" speculated an angry civil servant. The Express soon narrowed the search to Brown...